in this affluent gated community, a lot of multimillion dollar homes here in this country club. police confirmed the home invasion happened early this morning. we still don't know if the suspects walked or drove into this gated community. every entrance has a guard shack and there is video surveillance of every car that drives in, so it's quite possible the suspects hopped the fence and terrorized one family here. sources say it happened again early this morning, the suspects apparently had knives with them and at one point one of the victims was possibly pistol whipped by one of the intruders. the suspects got away and took off with personal belongings from the victims. those victims appear to be okay, if not shaken up by the ordeal. the silver creek country club is home to professional football players, doctors, and engineers, so there is a lot of money here, but it seems even with the guard shack at every entrance, the robbers managed to get into the grounds here. we also understand from police one of the victims suffered minor injuries. that victim was treated and released at a law school hospital. i left a message for the property manager, we're waiting to hear back from them. live outside the silver creek country club, i'm damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >> no one deserves that kind of treatment. thank you, damian. just in, a runaway teen from hayward has been found after days of searching from police and volunteers, someone recognized minh ly from media reports and called police this morning. the boy found about an hour ago at the larkin street youth services of san francisco. minh reportedly ran away saturday afternoon after a fight with his four. authorities say minh is in good health and went to the center on his own. san jose police looking for a group of teens that attacked and stabbed a 16-year-old as he was walking home from school. the boy was screaming for help as he was stabbed. this happened just before 3:00 in the afternoon yesterday. police say there were several witnesses, but nobody able to identify the suspects. the student listed in serious, but stable condition. this all happened at hamann park near del mar high school. it's unclear, though, if the victim was attending del mar. a man accused of murdering 15-year-old sierra lamar is back in court today. after many delays, today a judge could finally set the date for that murder trial for antolin garcia-torres to begin. he pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed morgan hill teenager after he was dieted by a grand jury in february. investigators say they found lamar's hair on a rope in the trunk of torres's car and dna on lamar's clothing, those sierra lamar's body has never been found. growing calls for nfl commissioner roger goodell to resign in the wake of the ray rice controversy. the national organization for women have issued a statement today calling for goodell to step down, citing the ray rice case as an example of the league's failure to act on domestic violence. now president terry o'neal suggests the successor would be better equipped to make a push for lasting reform. n.o.w. also recommends the nfl bring in an independent investigator to investigate future domestic violence cases. goodell says he's used to the criticism and does not believe his job is on the line. police in hayward on the hunt for a suspected arsonist who may have set two fires in 24 hours. the most recent fire happened yesterday on industrial parkway. firefighters found a gas can that was set on fire at the front door of the building. they were able to put it out before the fire spread to the building itself. a day earlier, someone threw a molotov cocktail into a vacant building just a few doors down, but fortunately only the carpet caught fire. a new clue this morning in the search for a mountain lion that attacked a 6-year-old boy in the cupertino hills. wildlife tracker has spotted fresh prints near a creek in cupertino that may belong to the big cat. trackers have been tracking that animal around the clock since sunday's attack as the boy walked with his family on a trail at the picchetti ranch trail. that trail now closed. that 6-year-old is recovering at home. the family of a santa cruz man who died on highway 17 calling for caltrans to make that stretch of road through the santa cruz mountains safer. daniel mcguire died when a big-rig traveling on highway 17 in santa clara lost its brakes and sparked a multi-car crash, seven people were hurt, road closed for hours. today the family will hold a press conference to unveil a plan to widen the road in hopes of preventing deadly crashes. a santa clara county official is no longer in charge of his department after the investigative unit exposed personal travel rewards he racked up using public money. the director of child support services, john vartanian is on leave until an investigation is wrapped up. the investigative unit scoured thousands of travel detectives and found vartanian racked up credit card and hotel reward points on the county's dime. he put more than $55,000 worth of expenses on his personal card covering more than 30 employees. the county paid him back, then he banked the rewards. we even found out vartanian got points for conferences he did not attend himself. vartanian has been with the county for 13 years. he was appointed director last year. he has declined to comment to the unit's findings. the county executive's office is temporarily overseeing the day-to-day activities of the child support services department. if you have a tip, give us a call at 888-966-tips or send an e-mail. the south napa earthquake has claimed its first life. 65-year-old laurie thompson was hit in the head during a tv during last month's quake. she did not go to the hospital until the next day when she felt dizzy. she died friday. today we are also getting a much clearer idea on the property damage done. a new estimate found the wine industry alone lost an estimated $80 million, that number likely to climb. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez says vintners are hoping for help. >> reporter: renee and his crew have been working nonstop the past two weeks to repair the damage caused by last month's quake. not only did it make a mess of his barrel room, it damaged a good portion of the winery's 12,000-gallon tanks. >> here being only about two and a half, three miles from the epicenter, it's been quite a challenge for sure. >> reporter: an independent wine industry expert released his assessment to the damage of napa valley wineries. ron mcmillan estimates damage at more than $80 million. he says it's a number that's likely to rise. >> there's somewhere around 500 wineries in the napa valley, and we estimate about 60% were impacted, about 25% had moderate damage exceeding $50,000. >> reporter: one of the hardest hit, their workers are harvesting wine while wearing hard hats tonight. and as construction crews shore up their historic tasting room, they are making way for a pop-up tasting room due to open next week. >> we've had so many calls, so many people swinging by, they want to come by. we'd love to welcome them and we're almost ready. >> reporter: jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. the early warning one bay area family got moments before the south napa earthquake hit. thanks to this homemade gadget. plus, drivers beware, the construction about to shut down some bay area freeway off-ramps. details. and this morning we're watching temperatures warm very quickly, already near 80 in the tri-valley, and with the first day of fall about two weeks away, we're tracking the potential for our first rainfall. we'll talk about that coming up when nbc news at 11:00 comes back. earthquake, light shaking expected in -- eight seconds. >> well, imagine having your own personal earthquake early warning system. a uc berkley professor says it is doable for less than $100. nbc bay area's cheryl hurd shows us how. >> earthquake -- >> reporter: it's a warning -- >> shaking expected in eight seconds. >> reporter: and those seconds can save lives. >> it's quite possible we get no time. we get no warning. >> reporter: uc berkley professor josh bloom made this simple warning device. >> i got involved with the berkley seismology laboratory. >> reporter: the lab is involved in building a network of sensors around california, oregon, and washington state. >> this network that's been created that pushes this information out and for now, you have to be part of this group that is essentially a data tester of this network. and i'm part of that group. >> reporter: this not so fancy earthquake warning system made up of parts you can get almost anywhere. >> and here's the back of the speaker, and it's plugged in to what's called a raspberry pie. >> reporter: the raspberry pie is a commercially available computer that costs about $35. there's a disk inside that costs $16 and a back-up battery. the entire device, $110. >> if we had the ability to push out these alerts, there would be millions of people, literally millions of people, who could be listening and could be saved. >> reporter: bloom's family is ahead of the curve. they got a warning just prior to the napa earthquake. >> we only got about five seconds' warning in berkley because we were fairly close to the epicenter. >> reporter: there's a lot of things you can do within five seconds before the earthquake hits. for example, you can run to your kitchen and turn off the burner. >> you can imagine living in a place where you're worried about tsunamis or tornados or earthquakes and getting advanced warning for any one of these things before they actually strike could be life saving. >> reporter: cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. well, some good news out of southern california, where firefighters making headway and knocking down a brush fire east of los angeles. the fire burning about 30 miles east of l.a. near a golf course. so far burned about ten acres since early this morning. no structures threatened. fire about 65% contained. marine officials will be keeping an eye on a gray whale that's been spotted dangerously close to the shoreline. they believe the whale is lost. they are asking people and boaters to stay away from it. the whale was first spotted several miles south of marina del rey. it's unusual to see whale this is time of year. they typically migrate and are gone by now. well, the tortoise that escaped from its san jose home has returned to its owner. we first showed you the story yesterday, and last night the tortoise's owner tweeted us to let us know napoleon is home safe and sound. this is the surveillance video of the tortoise making his escape through the front yard, shows him being picked up by strangers and put into a car. we don't know yet whether the folks returned the tortoise, whether they were trying to rescue him because he was headed for disaster, or maybe he made his way home by himself. perplexing. a work to change the 280-880 interchange enters a new phase tonight, meaning the northbound 280 to northbound 880 and stevens creek off-ramps shut down overnight until 5:00 tomorrow morning as part of an effort to improve one of the most dangerous interchanges in the bay area. bart is about to release a report it hopes will prevent crippling strikes like the two last year. an audit found, quote, nearly universal lack of trust between management and workers and calls for a reform to the bart labor negotiation process. the report used anonymous interviews from bart board members, union officials, and management. the audit, rather, recommends that future negotiations begin six months before any contract is set to expire and advises both sides not to negotiate through the media. bart and the union finally reached a contract agreement last october. san jose's planning commission will consider a proposal today to allow a bigger card room to be built within city limits. right now located near the airport, it wants to move across the freeway and build a bigger card room with more tables. right now, san jose's two casinos, bay 101 and casino matrix are limited to 49 gaming tables, but bay 101 wants to have 115 at its new location. >> they have their old location still a mystery tenant, you know, still don't know who is going to move in there. >> that's right. >> silicon valley, fortune 500 company. still trying to track that one. anthony is here and he doesn't have to crack the weather forecast, he knows it. >> well, we investigate every morning, then the evening shift comes in. temperatures right now, maybe you're enjoying some warm sunshine. look at the difference, though, half moon bay 59 degrees. all the way up towards the tri-valley, 79 degrees. 20-degree difference already since 11:00 this morning. through the day, unlimited ac is going to be with us. lots of hot air pumped in from the central valley because we have our winds today typically onshore, today they are coming more from an offshore direction. warm winds pushing all of this fog back to the coastline. nonetheless, any fog already burned off, even in san francisco, you can see blue skies there from the east shore, plenty of good visibility. south bay, hazy sunshine, but overall, notice the temperatures, 92 in the north bay, 88 in the south bay, and one of our warmest, tri-valley, without a doubt, close to 96 degrees in places like pleasanton and livermore. it's going to continue over the next couple of days. through the afternoon, going up each day towards friday. warmest conditions on friday with the tri-valley near 99 degrees. then we start a gradual decline towards next week, because the first day of fall starts on september 22nd, and with that we're going to be talking about a potential for maybe some showers. we have lots going on this weekend, so take advantage of it. the giants taking on the arizona diamondbacks tonight at 7:15 and friday here on nbc, you can watch them take on the dodgers and that will continue through the weekend. comfortable temperatures here, 60s and 70s at at&t park. other things happening this weekend, if you like chocolate like me, we'll hook you up with this one. saturday and sunday around noon, head out for free tasting of some chocolate. of course, you have to pay for some of the more expensive chocolate, but nonetheless, really gorgeous conditions. 70s across the board, from san francisco down to the marina district. now, we've been telling you about rain, hoping for it, hoping to put green on the map. here's the thing, september 22nd, first day of fall. september 17th, couple days before that, we may get our first chance of showers in the north bay. then in october, around the 3rd through the 6th, we could be looking at a more substantial amount of rain. here are the statistics about that. we typically see our first rainfall in september about .3 in napa, even the south bay where we don't get that much, but look what happens in october, we really start to tack those rainfall amounts up. up in the north bay, about an inch and a half is what we usually see in october. even in the south bay and san francisco, more than three-quarters of an inch. each and every day we get closer to october we can finally, hopefully, put some rain on some of these maps. but right now, next seven days is just going to be hot. >> i want the rain, just not on me. >> just not in this little section where i can enjoy, yes. getting to cal state school may soon be more difficult for many students. we'll show you the changes csu may implement next year. plus, the stunt by nba star jeremy lin that left many stunned. and here's a look at what's coming up next. it is "access hollywood live," followed by "days of our lives" here on nbc bay area. the csu system considering a plan to limit enrollment only to those students who are transferring from a community college. l.a. times reports trustees discussed the idea yesterday. they are trying to figure out how to deal with limited state funding and record-high enrollment. experts predict next year's enrollment will be even higher. currently students who get an associated degree at a community college are guaranteed acceptance at cal state schools. that guarantee leaves very few slots for non-transferring freshmen. trustees are set to vote on the new proposal in november. student loan debt isn't just a problem for younger americans, turns out a small, but growing number of seniors are struggling to pay down education loans, as well. a new government report out this morning shows the amount of older americans having money taken out of their social security checks to pay college debt has significantly increased in the past decade. in 2010, 4% of americans between the ages of 65 and 74 still owed money on federal student loans. that is up 1% from 2005. the same year the total amount of student loan debt for all senior citizens was just under $3 billion. last year that number jumped to $18.2 billion. happening today, the nevada legislature in a special session to consider giving $1.3 billion in tax breaks to tesla. nevada governor brian sandoval hopes the tax breaks and other incentives are the final step towards securing tesla's $5 billion battery factory and tens of thousands of jobs. the incentive deal would allow the company to allow most sales, use, and property taxes, at least for a decade. tesla's ceo announced last week he does plan to build the massive factory in reno after considering several states, including california. a popular ride sharing company accused of discrimination. the national federation of the blind filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against uber. they say some of the drivers have refused to give rides to blind people with service dogs, while other mishandled the dogs or harassed their owners. if the claims are true, it is a violation of the federal american with disabilities act. san francisco-based uber says it has not yet seen the suit, but their company policy is to fire any driver who refuses to transport service animals. here's an image of the yacht. the paper says that vessel is called "a," according to the website super yacht fan, and that is an actual website. the yacht is owned by a russian billionaire who comes in 125th on forbes list of billionaires. the luxury craft named after his wife, alexandra. a seattle newspaper reports "a" visited the puget sound, stopping at harbor island to fill up on gas to the tune of $500,000. >> you said "a," i thought it was a canadian owner. tonight, one of san jose's famous riders will receive the prestigious john steinbeck award. the award comes on the 75th anniversary of steinbeck's grapes of wrath. as a young immigrant, he had a life changing experience when he first read the novel in high school. "the kite runner" author will be honored for his literary contributions and humanitarian effort. tickets are $20. take you out live to at&t park. giants back in action tonight for game two of the series with the diamondbacks. they won last night's game 5-1. tonight's game starts at 7:15. the 49ers front office is pulling out all the stops for the opening of the new levi's stadium in santa clara. the team will hand out 501 golden tickets sunday with a special prize, though the team is staying quite mum about what the prize is. we are just four days away now from the home opener at levi's stadium. nbc bay area is, of course, your home for the 49ers all season long. be sure to tune into today in the bay starting at 5:00 friday morning. we'll be live inside the stadium with a behind the scenes look you'll see only right here on nbc bay area. new video coming up this week about what happened when palo alto native jeremy lin received a max statue at madame tussauds. ♪ the lakers' point guard decided to have some fun with the visitors. he showed up to take a picture what they thought was wax, lynn even stunned local family members who stopped by. his mom taking a picture with her, and the actual wax statue. >> they do look so real. >> especially when they are. >> i know. convincing america is time for military action against isis. we're getting serious now, just hours away from president obama's speech that will hit the air waves live. we'll take a closer look at his proposal and whether the plan has the support it needs. closer look at the scene of a crime. inside the home of olympian and accused murderer oscar pistorius. how will president obama deal with the threat of isis militants? that is the question he plans to answer in a major speech about six and a half hours from now. a senior administration official says that president obama is prepared to authorize air strikes, not only in iraq, but now in syria. >> mr. obama planning to lay out this strategy for degrading, ultimately destroying isis, in a primetime speech. nbc's peter alexander reports. >> reporter: with isis overrunning iraq and finding a safe haven in syria, tonight the president makes his case for going on offense. a strategy he previewed behind closed doors with top congressional leaders tuesday. while president obama has ruled out u.s. ground troops, a senior administration official tells nbc news the president asked lawmakers to train the syrian opposition, which would require a vote in conference. white house aides say must happen before next week. house speaker john boehner expressed support for some of the president's proposals, including training and equipping the opposition. still, aides say he does not need congressional authority to take military action against isis. >> if the president believes this is a high national security priority. >> reporter: overnight, john kerry made an unannounced stop in iraq, part of a tour to build allies, which has not required a lot of arm twisting. the president won't give operational details, an estimated cost or precise time table for the fight against isis. this is not a short-term proposition, an aide said. this primetime address comes exactly one year to the day after the president's last serious speech. then americans were largely skeptical of action in syria, but not anymore, especially after two barbaric beheadings of american journalists. >> emboldens us, stiffens our spines. >> significant shift for president obama, who wanted to leave the white house as a peacetime president, but now it's likely the country could be in another potentially costly military campaign. president obama's address expected at 6:00, and you can watch it right here, of course, on nbc bay area. a 19-year-old denver woman accused of trying to join isis is expected to plead guilty today. shannon connolly was arrested at the denver airport in april trying to board a flight to syria. officials say she wanted to use her skills as a nurse's aide to help the militants there. connolly could face up to five years in prison. the thousands of people who died on september 11th, 2001, will get a new honor today nearly 13 years after the attacks. a special ceremony planned today and members of house and the senate will unveil congressional medals honoring the men and women who died when the towers were struck, the highest civilian honor congress can hand out. nearly 3,000 people were killed 13 years ago tomorrow at the world trade center, the pentagon, and in shanksville, pennsylvania. a judgment expected tomorrow in the high profile murder trial, south african olympian oscar pistorius accused of killing his model girlfriend last year. nbc got an exclusive tour inside the scene of the crime. nbc's jeff rosen takes us there. >> reporter: since the shooting, oscar pistorius's luxury mansion has been off limits. the only images inside, these gruesome crime scene photos taken just hours after he shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. until now. let me walk you through the shooting step by step and the very spot where it happened. that's right through here. oscar pistorius's master suite. it happened in the middle of the night. pistorius's bed was right over here and you can see they've since gotten rid of all the furniture. reeva was laying in bed right here, he had just come off the balcony right in this area, brought fans inside. pistorius said he was standing about this spot in the bedroom when he heard a noise from down that hallway, right around the corner is the master bathroom. thought there was an intruder in there. prosecutors say if that's true, why wouldn't he wake reeva up and both of them run out the front door in the bedroom, make a safe escape away from the intruder? but that's not what he did. instead, pistorius said he came to this side of the bed, keeps his gun under here. took the gun out and immediately drew his weapon, holding it in his right hand. important to note, he was walking on his stumps, no prosthetic legs at this point, so he's using his left arm, he says, to walk down this hallway of cabinets towards the bathroom and holding his gun out the entire time. here we are right here at the entrance to the bathroom. he says he was creeping by, held his gun out and pointed it right at the toilet door. that's when pistorius says he heard another noise. thought the toilet door was opening, the intruder was coming at him, so he fired four shots. we now know that's not true. the door was completely shut, it was completely locked, and it wasn't an intruder in there, it was reeva. prosecutors say, how did he make that mistake? we're talking about, what, one, two, three, four steps to get to this bathroom. why wouldn't reeva be in here screaming, oscar, it's me in here, it's not an intruder? i'll tell you, you get the idea when i stand here just how small this room is, and you think about reeva's final moments and the terror she must have been in. nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, barely anywhere to move, and the bullet holes are still here in the wall. pistorius still maintained on the stand this is all self-defense. >> my lady, i didn't have time to think. i was dealt with the situation in which i had to protect reeva and myself. >> reporter: after the shooting he realized it was reeva in there, he put on his prosthetics legs and broke down a door with the cricket bat. he physically carried her out of the bedroom and over here to the stairs, trying to get her to an ambulance. pistorius says even at this point in his arms reeva was unresponsive but still breathing. when he got here to the foot of the stairs, pistorius says he laid reeva down and at that moment in his arms, she took her final breath and died. the question before the judge now, which we'll get an answer to this week, was this just an accident as he claims, or cold-bloodied murder? absolutely chilling to be inside that home. you can still see the blood marks on some sections of the carpeting. tomorrow, a huge day in this case, the judge delivers her verdict. full coverage here on nbc. jeff rossen, nbc news, pretoria south africa. a disturbing story, a father in police custody after authorities say he led them to the bodies of his five young children. police claim he killed his children in south carolina, then drove to alabama, where he dumped the bodies along a dirt road. they say each body was individually wrapped in a plastic bag. jones then fled to mississippi, where he was tracked down by police. they say they found bleach and bloodstains in his suv. so far jones has not been charged with the children's murders. to vegas now and harrowing video of a flash flood that turned a las vegas highway into a river earlier this week. watch as the surging water swallows a mini van. inside that van, an elderly couple. the van ended up stuck on a roadway pillar and a group of men were able to rescue one of the car's occupants, but the other person was washed down stream. that person, though, was eventually rescued by emergency crews. incredibly, neither was seriously hurt. the torrential rain was blamed with the remnants of tropical storm norbert. up next, a firsthand look at why every drop of water should be precious to california residents. plus -- >> they can put a dragonfly on the ground today and teach those people something. >> plus, the power of a lawn ornament. the bay area family looking to help others after suffering an unimaginable tragedy and the dragonflies at the center of those efforts. summer giving us one final hoorah. temperatures warming into the 7 os and 80s. meanwhile, potential for showers in our seven-day forecast. i'll explain when nbc bay area news comes right back. and we have breaking news on the peninsula, where paramedics rushed four pedestrians to the hospital, hit by a car. this crash happened around 10:30 this morning in san mateo. police say that car veered from the roadway, on to the sidewalk where the four people had been walking. the car then hit a light pole. the driver and four pedestrians said to have injuries, but we don't know how severe those injuries are. we certainly do have a crew headed to the scene. we'll bring you more information as it becomes available. turns out exclusive golf courses don't stop for anyone, even if you are the president. nbc news learned at least three top country clubs in new york turned down president obama's request to play golf over labor day weekend. those included trump national golf club and wing foot. the president was in town for a fundraising event and a wedding and club managers chose not to inconvenient members by shutting down their course on such short notice. the president ended up not staying in new york and instead commuted from washington instead. well, people across california facing a dire situation months after a state of emergency declared one of the most severe droughts in the state's history just getting worse. >> it is. and after three consecutive years of below-normal rainfall, 82% of the state is now categorized as extreme drought. nbc's al roker recently traveled for a firsthand look at the situation at the san joaquin valley. >> reporter: in late august in seville, california, anticipation in the air. >> every day when i come home, i'm calling people, hey, is the well connected? >> reporter: for the first time in roughly four years, the county was drilling a new well and becky was ecstatic. >> we'll be able to wash our clothes, we'll be able to flush our toilets. we'll be able to take a shower, wash our dishes. >> reporter: seville is not the only town in california's drought-weary county to run out of water. >> people around here haven't had water at least a couple months. >> reporter: thousands of residents in what's known as the fruit, nut, and dairy basket of the nation have run dry. show me what happens when you turn on the tap. >> well, for today, that's what we have. >> reporter: some days there's a trickle, but even then, becky's got another problem. >> we have bacteria and just recently they noticed we have nitrates, as well. >> reporter: water advocates say the chemical comes from fertilizer and manure, something many farmers dispute, but unsafe water's an issue across the state. >> over a million people in california don't have safe water coming out of their tap on an annual basis. >> reporter: laura firestone is the cofounder of the nonprofit community water center. so somebody is watching in michigan or new york or north carolina, why should they be concerned about this? >> we're seeing over and over again in community after community that if we're not paying attention to the source of that water, that it's vulnerable. >> reporter: engineers test for contamina contaminants, but it's clear the town's dilapidated infrastructure mean the well is just a temporary fix. still, becky is thankful. >> i'm going to take a shower, long shower. >> that's al roker reporting. the county has a plan to deal with the infrastructure, but still, lots going on there. >> yeah. well, now we want to take a look at our weather forecast with meteorologist anthony slaughter. it's anthony. >> i know, christina was here all morning. she's headed out now. let's talk about your forecast this morning. we desperately need the rain in the bay area, but we're just not seeing it. however, rain season around the corner. today, though, strong offshore winds and that is what has pushed all of the fog back to the coastline. you can see it, 67 in san francisco, meanwhile, 80 degrees close to that in the tri-valley, so we are warming quickly, close to 70 right now in the south bay. san francisco later on, 74. north bay, 92, and tri-valley, one of our warmest today, up to 96 degrees. south bay close to 90, so a very warm day. hopefully you have the spf with you and lots of water through the day. if you're looking for things today, this weekend the 34th annual comedy day in the park around noon on sunday. expected to have over 40 comedians there. really gorgeous conditions, along with some very fun times expected out on sunday. you'll notice temperatures in the 70s in san francisco, all the way through the weekend. and we've got the raiders' home opener taking on the texans sunday, as well. temperatures there in the mid 70s. of course, can't forget about the 49ers back in santa clara for the first official season opener game there. temperatures right there, 84 at 5:00 as they take on the bears. now the other thing we've been telling you about, of course, the rainfall, how desperately we need it. way off into the future on september 17th, there's going to be a storm system that kind of scrapes the bay area. this thing's going to move more so to the north, but i think the north bay could get showers out of it. the more impressive system, though, that comes in october 3rd through the 6th, we could watch for substantial rainfall across the entire bay. we'll watch that very closely. in the meantime, hope you're enjoying this warm weather over the next couple of days. keep the water handy, spf, guys, back to you. >> make the best of it, thank you very much. breaking news in san francisco this morning, you should expect major delays on muni because of a medical emergency at the van ness station. all service halted at that station. it's an incident reported just after 11:15 this morning, so about a half hour ago. we'll bring you updates as they come in to our newsroom. further breaking news, live pictures over west hillsdale avenue in san mateo, where we understand a car hit four pedestrians on the sidewalk. this is the investigation, the pedestrians have been taken to the hospital, along with the car's driver. you can see the car there on the flat bed. we don't know the extent of these injuries, but we have a crew on the ground, as well, and the minute we know anything, we'll let you know. again, four people hit on the sidewalk in san mateo. now to a moving story, promises made and promises kept. >> it is a follow-up to a story we first brought you back in february about a gilroy's family ability to think of others during their darkest hour. garvin thomas is here with our bay area proud series. >> reporter: that dark time for the family of gilroy was the death of their 6-year-old daughter. it has been just seven months since they lost her. their grief is, of course, still strong, but willingness to help others, it turns out, may be just as strong. >> all right. >> reporter: some promises are easy to make. but very hard to carry out. the promise libby is on her way to keeping is one of those. because it is a vow libby made to her 6-year-old daughter, jennifer lynn, not long before she died. >> i will do, i will do it for the rest of my life, i promised her that. >> reporter: that is libby and husband tony in february, just five days before jennifer lost her battle with a rare and always fatal brain tumor called dipg. libby's promise was to do whatever in her power to fight against pediatric cancer, to hopefully one day prevent others from feeling her pain. the family started keeping that promise the very day jennifer died. >> there are a lot of cells. >> reporter: donating her tumor so doctors at stanford could create rare and much-needed dipg stem cell lines. one that could very well lead to breakthroughs against the disease that hadn't seen any in decades. none of that happens, however, without money, which brings us to what libby and her three surviving children are doing in this gilroy yard. they call it fluttering. it is a brand new fundraiser for the family's brand new nonprofit, unravel. for $25, families get a kit of a dozen dragonfly lawn ornaments. they sneak them on to the lawn of a friend, asking for a donation and a nomination for the next family to be fluttered the next day, for the whole month of september. lindsey hack helped the family put it all together. >> we were expecting, okay, 50 people, okay, maybe we'll reach 100. >> reporter: it ended up being 350 families in 49 states and three countries, all with the potential to flutter more than 10,000 homes and easily raise more than $100,000 for pediatric cancer research. it is a lot, but still never enough for libby. >> it will never be good enough for me, because it was my daughter. it's going to be this lawn right here, okay? >> reporter: so it is in her daughter's name libby promises to never stop, for the sake of children she doesn't know, as well as for the sake of her own. just as important as raising the money for the family, though, is raising awareness. they believe that funding for pediatric cancer is way too low, and they want to take every chance to let people know about it and do something about it. garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> garvin, thank you. we continue to follow breaking news out of san mateo, we've been talking about that. we have a crew on the ground, helicopter overhead. about four pedestrians hit. we'll let you know about that coming up in just a minute. also, another way technology could help cancer patients fight, find the right treatment for their specific cancer. welcome back. we continue to follow breaking news out of san mateo, where there's been a traffic accident, a car hitting four people on the sidewalk. the driver and the people have been taken to the hospital. we continue to watch this on west hillsdale avenue in the 300 block. we have a crew there on the ground and helicopter overhead and we will try to give you the latest as it comes into our newsroom. also, two of rochester's biggest brain trusts teamed up to help doctors study new cures and treatments for cancer. >> the mayo clinic and ibm working together for years, but this venture has a machine unlike any other. >> a new generation of doctors are helping learn the language of medicine. >> reporter: the medical brain is teaming up with the mechanical brawn through a partnership with ibm, the mayo clinic is using watson to pair cancer patients with the clinical trials her best suited for. >> we've all been increasingly impressed about the potential that watson offers to help transform the delivery of health care. >> reporter: dr. la russa is leading the collaboration and as a doctor himself, knows how difficult it can be to pair patients with a trial that might be their best bet. >> when i see a patient that might be a candidate for a clinical trial, i have to remember what clinical trials might be available. >> reporter: watson will sort through 8,000 mayo studies, in addition to 170,000 ongoing worldwide studies to find a match based on medical records. >> have the potential of significantly increasing the number of patients that we can enroll in trials, the speed with which we can enroll them in trials, the accuracy of the matching. >> reporter: ibm and mayo have teamed up before, but this is a first with watson. >> our think big here is helping accelerate the maturation of watson as a member of the health care team, our start small is the clinicals trial matching. >> reporter: meaning better, more precise research. >> watson has the personal to transform the way we deliver care. >> right now, about 5% of the patients enrolled in trials mayo hopes it will reach about 10 people using watson and we'll be back in just a minute. and we go back to that breaking news. this time in san francisco where you should expect major delays on the muni lines because of a medical emergency at the van ness station. all subway services halted at that station, which is near the corner of van ness avenue and market street. we understand that a person was pinned underneath one of those muni trains just after 11:15 this morning. that person is alive and now transported to the hospital, but the afternoon commute might suffer for quite some time. and we continue to watch that situation in san mateo, four people hit by a car. we'll continue to cover this throughout the afternoon on our 5:00 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